Has that been confirmed by Scolastic and/or Bloomsbury? As I've been hearing that rumer since Book 6 came out.

I read that on mugglenet and the kid that runs the site, Emerson Spartz, usually has accurate info. But no, I don't think that it has been confirmed by Scholastic.

I also watched that interview with Jo from the UK and she said that two major characters will die, but did not specify evil vs. good. She said that one character that she originally killed off has now been given a reprieve. As Grey pointed out earlier, she also said during this interview that these major characters have to die because she does not want someone down the road to write sequels.

"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions." Oliver Wendell Holmes

Harries also die?
Took a moment.
I do expect a major killing off not just because of sequel prevention.
While I expect that evil will not triumph in the end here, the defeat will be costly or it will run against anything built up in the saga.

Qwertyuiopasd wrote:honestly, I HOPE she kills harry. I don't see why the hero almost always has to live! kill him off for once, please!!! and not his friend, him. or HELL, how bout evil wins? whats so bad about that?

Evil wins all the time Qwerty. Live long enough and you'll find that it is true more often than naught. I like to see happy endings, there are so few of those in real life.

"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions." Oliver Wendell Holmes

Qwertyuiopasd wrote:honestly, I HOPE she kills harry. I don't see why the hero almost always has to live! kill him off for once, please!!! and not his friend, him. or HELL, how bout evil wins? whats so bad about that?

Evil wins all the time Qwerty. Live long enough and you'll find that it is true more often than naught. I like to see happy endings, there are so few of those in real life.

in real life, I know evil wins more often than not. but i'm talking in a book/movie sense.

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